A group from Glasgow sought in 1891 to purchase his portrait of Thomas Carlyle was shocked that Whistler's price was 1000 guineas. A spokesman countered that the portrait was not even life size. Whistler replied, "But, you know, few men are life size."
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Tom Prideaux and Time-Life Books, The World of Whistler (1970)James McNeill Whistler
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